[Update: I'm greatly looking forward to the keynote. You can watch a preview at the link below. But that's just a preview! The real thing is Friday, February 20th, at 3:30EST in Orlando! If you are attending the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference, see you there. If not, thank you! I'll be talking about many of the same themes I sound here on this blog and from @wareflo ON Twitter: Wear(able Work)FLOw/ Get it? Ha!]

I’m honored to be giving the keynote for the Society for Health System’s Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in Orlando, February 18-20, 2015.

Wearable Workflow Needs Health Systems Engineering

From the original calculator watch to today’s Google Glass and smart clothing accessories, wearable technology seeks to weave (sometimes literally!) information technology into everyday life and work, making it pervasive, intimate, and, metaphorically, friction free. Especially promising are applications in healthcare. These, for example, include patient monitors for the well and unwell and wearable user interfaces to health information systems. However, wearable tech will not succeed unless we get its workflows right. Getting the workflow right requires both means of driving workflow at the point-of-care and -health AND systems for analyzing, creating, and optimizing this workflow. In other words, successful wearable technology in healthcare requires health systems engineering. This presentation provides an overview of wearables and how health systems engineering can help make them a success in healthcare.

Ebola & EHR Workflow Engines, Editors & Visibility

Robot-In-My-Pocket

Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS

Bio: HIMSS14, HIMSS15, and HIMSS16 Social Media Ambassador! If you've got a healthcare workflow story, I want to tell it, blog it, tweet it, interview you, etc.
Chuck Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS has degrees in Accountancy, Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Systems, and Medicine (from the University of Chicago). He's the ex-CMIO for a three-time HIMSS Davies Award-winning pediatric EHR. Dr. Webster currently services as CMIMO (Chief Medical Informatics Marketing Officer) for workflow technology in healthcare. Chuck also created Mr. RIMP (@MrRIMP) (Robot-In-My-Pocket) a Bluetooth-controlled wearable robot for pediatricians and child life specialists to entertain children. Dr. Webster designed the first undergraduate program in medical informatics, was a software architect in a hospital MIS department, and is a judge for the annual Workflow Management Coalition Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow and Awards for Case Management. Chuck is a ceaseless evangelist for process-aware technologies in healthcare, including workflow management systems, Business Process Management, and dynamic and adaptive case management. Dr. Webster tweets from @wareFLO, @HealthITdog, and @MrRIMP (though there is some debate about the last two). He maintains almost a half-a-million words and graphics on numerous websites, including EHR Workflow Management Systems (http://chuckwebster.com), Healthcare Business Process Management (http://HCBPM.com) and the People and Organizations improving Healthcare with Health Information Technology (http://EHRworkflow.com). Please join with Chuck to spread the message: Viva la workflow!